absolutely ridiculous that there's no statue of a BattleMech or Jaeger anywhere in the West to match this energy

And The Left itself was wildly complicit, enthusiastic about poisoning itself. There was the embrace of pseudoscience shit like Lysenkoism that drove out any real scientists. But mostly the left did what it always does: throw away any consistent values for the sake of expanding its coalition.

The pivot happened in the 1950s, with the "radical" side of the political spectrum that would otherwise be promethean completely hollowed out by reactionary back-to-nature arguments laundered from the nazis. Out of the ashes of WW2, reactionaries won by completely subverting the opposition.

One of the most epic timeline I have ever seen.

I still can't get over how Tether, the largest liquidity stablecoin, was banned in the US for never publicly auditing their reserves 😬, but they donated to Trumps ballroom and are now operating in the US again (still without an audit) 😬😬😬 what a slush fund. crypto.news/ripple-tethe...

This is too much Gender I don't think we can handle this rn

Broke: "We must stop Bill Gate's lab-grown meat endeavors." Woke: "We must prevent Bill Gates from monopolizing and locking down lab-grown meat behind patents."

I'm tired boss

potential cellebrite information goldmine because goons didn't clean up after donotsta.re/notice/B0etp...

Discovery S4 being all "expected utility", "game theory", "confirmation bias" and AI control problem. The space libs discovered rats in a dusty data module

I don’t think people outside of healthcare realize how much AAP is standing out as a moral backbone of medicine right now, especially in pediatrics. There is so much fear at institutions. Seeing an org directly and repeatedly targeted refuse to budge an inch is extraordinary.

These days fighting for a free internet feels like endless waves of zombie apocalypse

Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s. This is the power of vaccines. The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer. Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!

"An essential step in the fascist march to acceptance and power was to persuade law-and-order conservatives and members of the middle class to tolerate fascist violence as a harsh necessity in the face of Left provocation." - Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism (2004)

Never forget that states' interest in tech stacks do not align with yours and states closer to you are typically a greater threat than distant ones

Okay, so news cycle finally seems (relatively) slow, so I'm going to finally do some promotion for my book. I read many hundreds of books and articles in drafting Did The Science Wars Take Place? and a lot of delicious quotes or examples didn't make it in... www.amazon.com/Did-Science-...

I think its worth noting by way of comparison that we have all of the technologies created in the mid to late 19th century but very little of the social, economic, and political conditions surrounding them in their time period would be recognizable to us. They were shockingly perverse

I have occasionally wondered if this is one of the implications of the title of @greatdismal.bsky.social The Peripheral, where no-one quite understands what is happening in China, except that it is way ahead on tech, and is weird.

Rejection of AI slop cannot be couched in an adherence to the past! Without an articulable vision of the future you are doomed to be beholden to someone else’s. Why do we keep playing this game??

they're cooking Linux hypno on Tumblr

Banger title

Gates Foundation IP maximalism killed a ton of people when pepfar and HIV prevention was spinning up but that was long enough ago that it's forgotten now :)

"Adapt yourself to the environment in which your lot has been cast, and show true love to the fellow-mortals with whom destiny has surrounded you." – marcus aurelius

Fun Tolkien fact: Celeborn's name in the Telerin tongue is "Teleporno"

Messes me up that oldschool cyberpunk cityscapes can almost feel like utopia in light of our NIMBY timeline

Impressive new robot hand from khyber labs

Oh no. I hope the next one is just as useless

Zizek has a joke in one of his books that only the Leninist party state could complete the final evolution of capitalism without democracy

tired: this will run on post-apocalyptic jury rigged machines inspired: this will still run when AGI monopolizes all compute

To survive various memory shortages on the way to the super horny ASI, endangered gamers focus on Doom wads way into the singularity

people forget that larry page and sergey brin still have majority control of Google and they are both diehard transhumanism and ai dudes from long, long before that was cool. or uncool. or even broadly known about. so: why should they care if this is sustainable?

Germany uses the excuse of the ’ceasefire’ which Israel routinely violates to sell weapons to Israel again. Israel is being rewarded for committing genocide by the country that pretends to have learned from the holocaust.

we have one of the most popular anarchist youtubers talking about game theory i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Bt...

What it's strange that everyone commenting on this seems to miss is that this obsession of Thiel is a direct response to Bostrom's argument that we should stop technology (AI) by building a global totalitarian state. Thiel is viewing the entire world through the lens of the rationalist civil war.

"Traumatic encounter with the real" seems to describe so many people's reaction. Science is an arena where pleasant ideas can be proven wrong and unpleasant ones may be true, and many people just can't handle that.

Important trekkie lore just dropped

Novo Nordisk's trials on whether semaglutide slows the progression of Alzheimer's failed to show a benefit - www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

LessWrongers in shambles

Yeah yeah based Pope at raves and shit. Meanwhile:

Napster? The metaverse startup?

Who had "Superconducting computers might make a comeback" on their AI bingo card?

Free trade is communist. Having a girlfriend is gay. They're so desperate for a powerful single unifying slur that functionally just means "capable of caring about other people."

In *normal times* the prosecution of Des for possession of zines would be The Issue of the entire North American radical milieu for a year, similar to Stop Cop City. There would be benefits and actions in every town, pushing back on this existential threat. archive.is/202511231336...

There's a UBI post on FB being reposted by thousands of accounts that's pro-UBI disinfo. No, Sweden didn't do a big UBI pilot where 5,000 Swedes got $1800/mo in UBI for 3 years. That never happened. The "results" appear to be AI-generated. UBI works. It doesn't need false data. See my pinned thread.

Professional degrees qualify for special federal student loans and discharge programs btw.

I think Claude Code has achieved AGI

In the least surprising development ever category. Both sad and funny that there will always be a new sucker to do his bidding until he bites the dust

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